Dawn of a New Day

Shoghi Effendi

There is no objection to permitting the name of a Baha’i
or his relative, to be placed on a stone incorporated in some
Baha’i building he has donated to the Faith.

He is delighted with the progress your work is making in
every field, and he urges you all to continually stimulate and
inspire the friends to make ever greater effort and sacrifice in
the service of their beloved Faith. The opportunity is unique
and the rewards of Baha’u’llah inestimably glorious.

[From the Guardian:]

My heart swells with joy, pride, and gratitude as I contemplate
the range of the services rendered in recent years by
the Indian believers to the Cause of Baha’u’llah. I particularly
rejoice at the splendid initiative, the magnificent zeal,
the unconquerable spirit that have characterised their recent
understanding associated with the new Plan which they
have audaciously conceived, and which, I feel confident, they
will prosecute with exemplary vigour and constancy.
Simultaneous with the united efforts that must be strenuously
exerted to ensure its success, a systematic endeavour must
be made to proclaim the verities of our glorious Faith
to the masses, and to disseminate far and wide its literature.
This threefold task requires the concentrated and sustained
attention of the rank and file of the believers, the subordination
of every consideration to its paramount interests, the
extension of generous financial assistance to the agencies
designed for its promotion. The believers in India have
set an inspiring example to their fellow-believers throughout
the East, and even to the great mass of their co-religionists
in Baha’u’llah’s native land, and have abundantly demonstrated
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to them all, what organized activity, boldly conceived
and soundly and energetically conducted, can achieve
when directed and animated by the ennobling influences and
the generative spirit of the Faith of Baha’u’llah. Their
exploits are indeed unsurpassed by those of any community
throughout the Baha’i world except those which stand
associated with the community that may well claim to be
the standard-bearer of the Cause of God in the West. That
these exploits may be the forerunners of still mightier and
nobler achievements is my fervent hope and prayer.

March 20, 1946
Baha’is Can Accept Grants-in-aid From The
Government

Your question about whether Baha’is can accept grants-in-aid
and free plots from Government….

There is no objection, the beloved Guardian says, to the
Baha’is receiving this type of help from the Government
and civic authorities.